2nd Trailer for Paul Corfield Godfrey's Adaptation of Tolkien's "The Silmarillion"

PAUL CORFIELD GODFREY
Epic Scenes from The Silmarillion after the mythology of J R R Tolkien
These settings for soloists, chorus and orchestra survey the whole mythology of J R R Tolkien’s writings on the First Age of Middle-Earth and beyond, using the author’s own words with the kind permission of the Tolkien Estate and HarperCollinsPublishers. As such it is the largest scale musical work ever written using Tolkien’s texts, and is designed for performance over five evenings:
Fëanor, Beren and Lúthien, The Children of Húrin, The Fall of Gondolin and The War of Wrath
The scores were written over a period of forty years from 1981 and 2021 and this first complete performance by singers from Welsh National Opera (with an orchestra prepared from live samples) was recorded over a period of six years from 2017 to 2023.
Production and Engineering:
Volante Opera Productions ©2023
Texts:
Used by kind permission of the estate of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and
HarperCollins Publishers ©2023
Artists appear by arrangement with Welsh National Opera
Artwork:
“Beren and Lúthien are Flown to Safety”, “Beren: Song of Parting”, “Lúthien”, “Morgoth and the High King of the Noldor”,
“Taniquetil”, “The Slaying of Glaurung”,
“Tuor reaches the Hidden City of Gondolin”,
“Turgon Recieves Tuor and Voronwë”,
“Túrin Discovers Niënor at the Mound of Finduilas” &
“Ungoliant and the Two Trees”
by kind permission of Ted Nasmith ©2023
Music published by:
Zarathustra Music ©2023
www.paulcorfieldgodfrey.co.uk

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6:12 The singular of "Valar" is "Vala", hence it should read "Ulmo, the *Vala* who governs the sea". Consider revising.

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We are aware of that and have been since after the video went live - it is a typing error that will have to stand now as to fix it will require entirely re-rendering of the video and removal of this video to replace with the new one. Since this has been live now for over a year our attentions are better served on our upcoming projects.